- Level
- confirmed
- Worst impact
- Degraded
- Components
- Beacon
- Down Index
- 20of 100
What to do
Check whether you use Help Scout Beacon. Check your stack
Paste a package.json, lockfile, Terraform or a list of domains at down.guide/stack to see every provider you depend on.Confirm your retries, queues and scheduled jobs caught up after the 1h 18m it lasted.
Anything that failed between 2026-08-14 14:59 UTC and 2026-08-14 16:17 UTC may need a replay.Subscribe to Help Scout's feed to hear about the next one first. RSS feed
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Updates from Help Scout 4
- investigating
We’re currently investigating reports of issues with slow behavior and loading in Live Chat. We will continue to update as we have more information.
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- monitoring
A fix is now in place, and Live Chat behavior is normalizing. Our Engineering Team is continuing to monitor the situation.
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- monitoring
Live Chat behavior is stable across the board, so we're closing this out. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this one!
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- resolved
Live Chat behavior is stable across the board, so we're closing this out. Thank you for your patience while we worked on this one!
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Corrections
None so far.
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Questions about DWN-173413920b
Is Help Scout still down?
No, this incident was resolved 2026-08-14 16:17 UTC. For Help Scout's live state, see https://down.guide/help-scout.
How long did it last?
1h 18m, from 2026-08-14 14:59 UTC to 2026-08-14 16:17 UTC, by the times Help Scout posted.
What was affected?
Help Scout named Beacon.
What caused it?
Help Scout hasn't published a root cause. If it does, it shows here.
Where does this come from?
Help Scout's official status page, https://status.helpscout.com, quoted verbatim. down.guide's own probes, reports and social counts are labeled as ours.